Hi everybody! It's been a while but here is chapter 7!
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Astrid woke up first. She looked at her surroundings, everyone still sleeping next to their dragons. The dragons were like family members to them. Family. The sudden reminiscence on her past brought tears to her eyes.
She stood up and walked away, wanting to be alone with her thoughts.
An hour later, rays of the sun warmed his freckled face. Slowly Hiccup opened his eyes and stretched his arms. He looked around. Everyone was sleeping. But... something was off. He realized he hadn't seen Astrid anywhere.
Like a bolt of lightning, he jumped up and shouted, "Where's Astrid?"
Everyone woke up, Snotlout speaking up. "I saw her in my dream."
Hiccup put his hand on his face, sighing. "That's not what I meant Snotlout!" He turned to face the others "Has anybody seen Astrid in real life?"
"Well...I saw her yesterday," answered Tuffnut.
"Oh Thor!" groaned Hiccup. "Okay! Go back to... whatever you were doing."
"What about you, chief?" asked Eret.
"I have to find Astrid and then we can go back to Berk!" said Hiccup and jumped into the saddle. "See you guys later!" with that, Toothless shot into the air.
Some time later, they saw somebody beyond, sitting on the cliff with her back to them and legs over the edge of the cliff. While approaching, he could distinguish her long blonde hair and blue shirt. Hiccup sighed with relief. That was Astrid. But why did she sit there like that? What if...
Swiftly jumping down of Toothless back and running towards her, Hiccup yelled: "Astrid! Please don't do this!"
The blonde turned her head, to look at him. There was a suprised expression on her face. "Don't do what?"
Hiccup, who was standing a meter away from her, had a very frightened look on his face. Quickly he said: "Don't jump!"
Her eyes went big "WHAT?"
"Please don't jump! There must be other ways than killing yourself to solve your problems! Just please, pleeease DON'T jump!"
"Wait! Did you... did you really... you thought I..." suddenly she started laughing. "Oh!"
Hiccup frowned "Astrid, why are you laughing? This isn't funny!"
Between laughs, she said: "You thought... you thought I... that I... I wanted to... to kill... myself!"
"Wait, you didn't?"
"Of course not! Why should I?"
"Well, it just looked like that..."
"Oh, Hiccup! You really are weird!"
"Actually, I'm not the one who is sitting on a cliff and laughing about it!"
"You're right. I am weird."
"Well thank you milady!"
Astrid stopped laughing "Milady?"
Hiccup's face went red "Umm... sorry? I didn't mean to upset you!"
"I hope so too!"
An awkward silence passed between them. "Umm... anyway, if you don't want to kill yourself then why are you sitting here?"
Astrid immediately became serious "I don't want to talk about it!"
"Okay then!"
Another long, awkward silence passed between them. "We should go now," Hiccup spoke.
Astrid stood up and without saying a world climbed on Toothless back. Her face was sad and angry at the same time.
Hiccup sighed, before climbing into saddle himself and Toothless took off.
After five minutes of flying, they landed in front of Hiccup's hut. Both of them climbed down and Hiccup opened his hut door. Immediately Toothless ran inside towards a barrel of fish and began eating his breakfast, leaving the two humans staring at him.
"Useless reptile..." mumbled Hiccup.
"He is just like his master," Astrid turned to Hiccup, her voice was very sweet "Do you have a map of the Archipelago?" Suprised, Hiccup raised his eyebrow.
"You know, a paper with island pictures on it?"
"I know what a map is, Astrid!"
"So do you have one?"
"Of course I do! But why do you want it?"
"I... I'm just curious, that's all!" she smiled very sweetly and Hiccup couldn't help but smile back. After seconds of smiling Astrid spoke again "Sooo, can I see the map?"
"Oh... right... the map!" he kneeled down in front of the chest against the wall and took out a roll of paper. "Here it is!"
Astrid grabbed the paper from Hiccup's hands and quickly unrolled it. On the paper, there were many islands, some of which she even haven't heard of. In the center of the map was Berk. A short distance away from Berk was Dragon's Edge, then next to it was an island called Dark Deep. On the other side of Berk were in succession three islands: Dragon Island, Berserk Island and finally, the island she was looking for. Outcast Island.
Okay, the story gets more interesting!
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